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Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. In this lecture Bloom discusses the founding of the idea of liberal education, and the meaning of the philosophic life expressed in...
Topics: Allan Bloom, Plato, Socrates, Nietzsche, Apology of Socrates, Xenophon, Philosophy, Leo Strauss,...
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This lecture was delivered at Boston College in 1983 to a small group for a series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives". It was intended to explore great philosophic works with a view to how they should be taught to undergraduates. The theme of the seminar was conceived in light of the decline & fall of liberal education in the University. In this lecture Bloom discusses Nietzsche's rejection of liberal democracy, contemporary nihilism, the Last Man, and the Will to Power. Bloom...
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Topics: Allan Bloom, Nietzsche, Existentialism, Heidegger, Political Philosophy, Leo Strauss, Machiavelli,...
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Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Aristotle's Ethics. The structure of the book and the best ways of life that emerge from it...
Topics: Allan Bloom, Aristotle, Ethics, Plato, Socrates, Nietzsche, Apology of Socrates, Xenophon,...
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Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of...
Topics: Allan Bloom, Plato, Socrates, Nietzsche, Apology of Socrates, Xenophon, Philosophy, Leo Strauss,...
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Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of...
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Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of...
Topics: Allan Bloom, Plato, Socrates, Nietzsche, Apology of Socrates, Xenophon, Philosophy, Leo Strauss,...
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Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of...
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Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of...
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Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. In this lecture Bloom discusses the founding of the idea of liberal education, and the meaning of the philosophic life expressed in...
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Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. In this lecture Bloom discusses the founding of the idea of liberal education, and the meaning of the philosophic life expressed in...
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Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of...
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Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. In this lecture Bloom discusses the founding of the idea of liberal education, and the meaning of the philosophic life expressed in...
Topics: Allan Bloom, Plato, Socrates, Nietzsche, Apology of Socrates, Xenophon, Philosophy, Leo Strauss,...
